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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
	"open list:SERIAL DRIVERS" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	"Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>,
	Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] serial: core: Allow detach and attach serial device for console
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 13:39:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200702203910.GO53169@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdUn5MK6tTd6ohFxa=K9NNHRbDp9P7gvPD52fCp2OsLnYA@mail.gmail.com>

* Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [200702 20:04]:
> Hi Tony,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 9:35 PM Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
> > * Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [200702 14:50]:
> > > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 7:11 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > > > any special reason for this change ? It is not really explained in the
> > > > commit description.
> > >
> > > Indeed. Why this change?
> >
> > For a kernel console, we want it to work for important oopses
> > etc without trying to enable DMA or power on regulators for example.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Thanks for the explanation about irqsafe consoles!
> I think I cannot disagree with that ;-)

You're welcome..

> Sorry for being a bit unclear, but my question (and I guess Günter's
> question, too) was about this particular change:
> 
>      static inline void uart_port_spin_lock_init(struct uart_port *port)
>      {
>     -     if (uart_console_enabled(port))
>     +     if (uart_console(port))
> 
> This change seems to be completely unrelated, is not explained in the
> commit description, and is the cause of the regression we're seeing.

..sorry looks I missed the context a bit then :) Hmm yeah not sure about
this change above.

Regards,

Tony

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-02 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-17 11:40 [PATCH v3 0/6] serial: Disable DMA and PM on kernel console Andy Shevchenko
2020-02-17 11:40 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] serial: core: Switch to use DEVICE_ATTR_RO() Andy Shevchenko
2020-02-17 11:40 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] serial: core: Allow detach and attach serial device for console Andy Shevchenko
2020-05-24 17:10   ` Guenter Roeck
2020-05-25 10:38     ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-05-25 13:59       ` Guenter Roeck
2020-07-02 14:48     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-07-02 19:35       ` Tony Lindgren
2020-07-02 20:03         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-07-02 20:35           ` Guenter Roeck
2020-07-02 20:39           ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2020-07-03 11:31       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-07-04 15:43         ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-04 16:33           ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-02-17 11:40 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] serial: 8250_port: Switch to use DEVICE_ATTR_RW() Andy Shevchenko
2020-02-17 11:40 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] serial: 8250_port: Use dev_*() instead of pr_*() Andy Shevchenko
2020-02-17 11:40 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] serial: 8250_port: Don't use power management for kernel console Andy Shevchenko
2020-02-17 11:40 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] serial: 8250_port: Disable DMA operations " Andy Shevchenko
2020-02-17 22:51 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] serial: Disable DMA and PM on " Tony Lindgren
2020-02-18  8:58 ` Petr Mladek
2020-02-24  9:09   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-02-24 12:23     ` Petr Mladek
2020-03-10 13:44       ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-03-17 18:50         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-03-17 14:23       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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